In Search of the Family Maurin
Matthieu Langlois and James Murphy share their original research excavating information about just a few of Peter Maurin’s 23 siblings. Originally published in The Catholic Worker, May 2023.
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Martha Hennessy: Rooted in a Legacy of Catholic Worker Values (CCW Ep 27)
In this episode of the Coffee with Catholic Workers podcast, co-hosts Theo Kayser and Lydia Wong interview Martha Hennessy, granddaughter of Dorothy Day. Martha shares insights into her unique upbringing, her personal journey away from and back to the Catholic Worker movement, and her reflections on the intersection of faith and activism today.
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Murphy Davis Tore Down the Prison Walls with Songs of Hope
Rev. Lauren Ramseur remembers her friend and mentor, Murphy Davis, founder of The Open Door Community and a leading voice in the movement to abolish the death penalty. Ramseur recalls her friend’s joyful spirit as she ministered to inmates on death row.
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Stories of Hospitality at Casa Juan Diego
Dawn McCarty shares stories of the many types of hospitality offered to immigrants at Casa Juan Diego. This article was first printed in the July – September edition of the Houston Catholic Worker newspaper.
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D.C. Catholic Workers: Annual ‘Arms Bazaar’ is an Affront to God
The Dorothy Day Catholic Worker (Washington, D.C.) organized a vigil outside the annual Air Force Association (AFA) “Air-Space-Cyber Conference and Technology Exposition” in National Harbor, Maryland, on September 16. Here is a letter Art Laffin, of the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker, sent about the vigil. It is presented here unedited.
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Ugandan Activist Returns Home After Being Illegally Detained 80 Days for Land Seizure Action
After attempting to educate subsistence farmers about their legal rights, Elizabeth Nakiwolo and Michael Setikoleko of the Uganda Catholic Worker were illegally detained in early June. Nakiwolo, a mother of three, was recently released. Setikoleko reports that the farmers’ village was raised, and several have died, in the wake of an illegal land seizure.
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Jackie Allen-Doucet: From Protesting with the Berrigans to Afterschool Mentorship in Hartford (CCW Ep 26)
In this episode of the Coffee with Catholic Workers podcast, co-hosts Theo Kayser and Lydia Wong speak to Jackie Allen-Doucat about the Hartford Catholic Worker’s work with kids and what it was like to raise her own kids in the Catholic Worker.
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Martha Hennessy Addresses 10th National Eucharistic Congress
Martha Hennessy, one of the grandchildren of Dorothy Day, addressed the 10th National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis, Indiana, on Friday, July 19, before a crowd of approximately 5,000 people at the Indiana Convention Center. Here is a video of the speech, along with a transcript and the prepared text.
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Chrissy Kirchhoefer and Lindsey Myers: There’s A New St. Louis Catholic Worker! (CCW Ep 25)
In this episode of the Coffee with Catholic Workers podcast, Chrissy Kirchhoefer and Lindsey Myers join co-hosts Theo Kayser and Lydia Wong to talk about the new house of hospitality they are starting in St. Louis with Theo.
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Are Children a Good Idea?
“Children have become a consumer decision,” writes Lydia’s House (Cincinnati, Ohio) co-director Mary Ellen Mitchell, “a luxury item not unlike an expensive mortgage or a Tesla: good for you if you can afford them, but don’t ask for help with that. The result is a collective lack of willingness to sacrifice for children that are not our own.” But her lived experience at Lydia’s House—along with the parenting practices of the Mbendjele people—suggests that there’s a way to celebrate the birth of every child and to support every mother.
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The Sower (Summer 2024)
Here’s the Summer 2024 issue of THE SOWER, the newsletter of Strangers and Guests Catholic Worker Farm.
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Dorothy Day…Superhero? New Graphic Novel Tells the Story of Her ‘Hero’s Journey’
There’s a new graphic novel that tells the story of Dorothy Day’s life and the Catholic Worker Movement she co-founded. We interviewed the writer behind Dorothy Day: Radical Devotion about why the graphic novel format suits her life, plus some of the little-known anecdotes revealed in the book.
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After 14-Year Campaign, One Catholic Worker Celebrates Assange’s Release
“Julian Assange is free. He left Belmarsh maximum security prison on the morning of 24 June, after having spent 1901…
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Reconstructing the Social Order Through the Works of Mercy in an Age of Migration
The mass migration of people today is causing a surge of anti-immigrant sentiment, hatred, and violence among those who follow a false god, write Louise Zwick and Noemí Flores. But if Christians recall how the Church responded to a previous age of mass migration, they might find that today’s “migrant crisis” is in fact a golden opportunity for reconstructing the social order.
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‘Do You Want to Come Home?’ 18 Years Running a Kansas City Christ Room
For 18 years, Charles Carney and Donna Constantino hosting a Christ room in their modest Kansas City home. In this interview with Roundtable editor Jerry Windley-Daoust, they describe how they decided to open up their home and the ups and downs that followed. “This is a very doable thing and it’s not as daunting as people might think,” Carney said. “Our lives changed way more than probably the people that live with us changed.”
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Akron Catholic Worker Seeks House Manager
We seek 3 full-time live-in volunteers to propel our mission forward.
Our work of hospitality grounds us in the daily needs of the most vulnerable. We are strongly rooted in faith and we act out of our commitment to the principles and tenets of the Catholic Worker Movement for which we look to the Aims and Means for guidance.
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Alexandria Addesso Comes Home to Start a New Jersey CW (CCW Ep 24)
In this episode of “Coffee with Catholic Workers,” Theo Kayser and Lydia Wong interview Alexandria Addesso, founder of the Elizabeth, New Jersey, Catholic Worker.
Alex talked about her journey to the Catholic Worker; her time at the Los Angeles Catholic Worker; and coming home to Elizabeth, New Jersey, to found a Catholic Worker there. Along the way, she talks about the intersection of Catholicism and anarchism, mutual aid, the pros and cons of registering a Catholic Worker as a tax-exempt nonprofit organization, and the ups and downs of operating a Catholic Worker largely on her own.
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The Christ Room Network
In 2016, Casa Alma Catholic Worker launched its Christ Room Network. Here, you’ll find an excerpt from the resource guide they wrote to support the project, along with the full PDF available for download.
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Alice McGary and Mary Kay McDermott: The CW’s Land and Craft Vision (CCW Ep 23)
In this episode, hosts Theo Kayser and Lydia Wong are joined by Alice McGary from The Mustard Seed Farm in the Ames, Iowa region and Mary Kay McDermott from St. Isidore Farm in Southwest Wisconsin. They explore if the word “cult” in Peter Maurin’s alliterative vision of “cult, culture, and cultivation” is scary or a turn off and how they’re trying to be producers and not just consumers.
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Casa Juan Diego Seeks Community Members to Work with Immigrants
Casa Juan Diego, the Houston Catholic Worker, Is seeking community members to assist in the Works of Mercy with immigrants and…
